Marriage and three children kept Stacy Aragon free from trouble. After her marriage disintegrated five years later and a custody battle ensued, Stacy's world appeared to implode.

She began associating with prison inmates, ex-cons and drug addicts, and bounced from homes in Peoria, Phoenix and Gilbert. She stayed wherever relatives were willing to put her up for a few weeks.

"She just got mixed up with the wrong people and started going downhill," Askren said of his sister.

In March 2005, her son, 10-year-old Anthony Kellogg, was killed by a drunken driver. Four months later, Stacy, then 28, and her boyfriend, Steven Bishop, vanished.

Stacy was reported missing to Gilbert police on July 20, 2005. Police have been tight-lipped about information on the cold case because it remains ongoing.

"Right now there are not any active, strong leads that will help us find Stacy or point to what specifically happened," said Sgt. Bill Balafas, a police spokesman. "Any kind of info we get right now is typically from confidential sources that we cannot divulge."

Stacy was last seen leaving her aunt's home near Gilbert and Elliot roads in Gilbert between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m., according to family accounts. Her two vehicles, a faded-green 1990s pickup and a burgundy Subaru, were also reported missing.

That morning, Bishop, an ex-con who served time for aggravated assault, picked up Stacy.

Bank records show that Stacy and Bishop made transactions at an ATM and a Dollar Store as they headed west across the Valley, said Nikki Askren, the missing woman's sister-in-law.

Cellphone towers tracked her Cricket phone from Gilbert northwest toward Lake Pleasant. Five months after disappearing, Stacy's Subaru was found in a remote location about 10 miles west of the lake.

"The car was in a spot so remote, you had to fly in by helicopter," Nikki Askren said.

Stacy and Bishop were still nowhere to be found.

Family members and friends peppered the Valley with fliers, but the leads quickly dried up.

"Right now the case is considered a cold case," Balafas said. "There have been a lot of dead ends in this case at the moment and it's just sad. Her kids are living and don't know why she disappeared."

Family members even reached out to two different psychics, one of whom said Stacy was shot and her body left near an abandoned mine.

A second psychic contacted authorities after seeing the flier in Payson, where Bishop has contacts. Information the psychic shared with police encouraged them to search with cadaver dogs, Nikki Askren said.

Again they came up empty-handed.

Family members do not believe Bishop was responsible for Stacy's disappearance. He was just "in the wrong place at the wrong time," Danny Askren said.

"Maybe when this first started, we wanted to find the guy who did this," Askren said. "Now I just want my sister back. With Stacy still missing, we still don't have that closure. Her sons are not given that opportunity for closure."

Her family longs to bury her body.

"Everybody deserves that," Nikki Askren added. "Even murderers on death row get a final resting place."